Twelve hours had passed since the Nova Express announcement dropped, and far from cooling off, the discourse across LucidNet had devolved into absolute, unfiltered anarchy.
This was no longer a standard online debate, nor was it like the previous arguments surrounding Nova's monopoly over life-saving medical nanites.
When the medical nanites announcement were released, the moral outrage was abstract for most—a philosophical debate over regulatory oversight and state sovereign rights.
But Nova Express hit the physical world with the weight of a sledgehammer. It directly and fundamentally wiped out the livelihoods of tens of millions of human beings in a single afternoon.
Every union, every displaced worker, every failing legacy business, and every person left standing on the outside of Nova's golden gates used the fallout to try and extract their pound of flesh from Nova Technologies.
